Aspects of Histories of Punjab and the Sikhs

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This course looks at the histories of Punjab and the Sikhs in South Asia and the Diaspora. The course starts by looking at the historical time and the later memory of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, along with other notable figures. It briefly looks at the 18th and the 19th centuries in history, culture, memory, and imagination up through the Partition of 1947. The Punjabi Diaspora in the West and its political commitment to dismantle imperialism are seen through figures like Maharaja Duleep Singh and Sophia Duleep Singh in the UK, and the intimate and familial relations of the early Punjabi settlers in California and the Ghadar movement in the US.